On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 02:53:56PM -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > Around the idea and concept of modularity... what are the benefits to Fedora, > Fedora developers, and Fedora contributors? Through the various discussions > on modularity, nothing solid in this regard has been presented. If I am > Fedora contributor now, what can modularity do for me? > It can define a build order among packages of a module. It can change RPM macros in a build root (including SRPM build root). It can use transient build dependencies (a package is built, only used as a build dependency of a consquitive package, and then dropped and never shipped). It can build and deliver a package against multiple exclusive dependencies (e.g. for different Fedora releases). It can build a package from dist-git sources that do not depend on a Fedora release. (Teoretically you can build a module from non-RPM components; I've never tried it.) -- Petr
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